3 Simple, Healthy Meal Plans You Can Start Right Now

 Is it possible to put together a simple and healthy meal plan?  One that is not going to be complicated and hard to follow?  Yes.  It is possible and I will show you how.   The healthy meal plans below will help you achieve your health goals while simultaneously shedding fat off your body.
Here are 3 healthy meal plans you can get started on right now.
Breakfast
Protein should be included in every meal throughout the day and breakfast is no exception.  Make sure to include organic eggs, cottage cheese, raw nut butter or smoked fish as one component of your healthy breakfast.  Carbohydrates should also be included in the form of oatmeal, sprouted grain bread, fruit and/or vegetables.
3 great sample breakfasts are:
Oatmeal with almond butter, topped with fresh berries and a bit of Stevia to sweeten.
2 hard boiled eggs, 1 slice sprouted grain toast and ½ grapefruit
Smoked salmon over sliced tomato and 1 green apple
Lunch
The same rules apply as breakfast.  An easy way to ensure that you always have a healthy protein available for lunch is to pack leftovers from dinner the night before.  Leftover hamburger, chicken legs or wild fish are all great to include in a salad or over vegetables.
3 great sample lunches are:
Baked Tilapia over sautéed spinach, green salad with chick peas (oil and vinegar as dressing) followed by  ½ cup of pineapple.
Leftover chicken legs with ½ sweet potato and broccoli.
Lean hamburger over portabella mushroom and brown rice.  Cooked vegetables or a green salad.  1 orange.
Dinner
You can really be creative with dinner.  Look for recipes that are quick and easy and modify them with your own healthy ingredients as needed.  Again, always remember to include protein and carbohydrates.
3 great sample dinners are:
Mexican salad: Ground beef over shredded lettuce and tomato, guacamole and brown rice.
Grilled Salmon over asparagus, green salad (oil and vinegar as dressing) followed by a  fresh fruit salad.
Buffalo meat balls over rice pasta with sautéed broccoli.
Snacks
You never want to let your body get too hungry.  Hunger often leads to binge eating of unhealthy food and makes sticking to a healthy eating regimen much more difficult.  It’s important to keep snacks handy so you never experience hunger or a blood sugar low without having a healthy option nearby.
3 great snacks are:
2 Tbsp almond butter on ½ apple
Trail mix made up of walnuts, almonds, pumpkin seeds and dried fruit (no sugar added)
Cottage cheese and pineapple
Incorporate just a few of these meals into your daily eating regimen and you will see an incredible difference in your weight loss results.  Following simple and healthy meal plans like these is the first step in achieving your health and fitness goals.

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Geeta Basra and Harbhajan Singh set to marry?

Mumbai: Oct 19, 2011

Indian off spinner Harbhajan Singh is all set to marry starlet Geeta Basra after months of speculations, if media reports are anything to go by.

The rumours of love affair between the two celebrities had started in 2008 with the onset of the Indian Premier League, where Geeta was reportedly spotted cheering Harbhajan on from the stands.

Although the two tried their best to downplay their relationship, B-Town faced another round of rumors when Harbhajan reportedly took Geeta along with him to Jalandhar for a very private family function.

During early 2011, stories that the couple had broken up due to their individual professional responsibilities surfaced. Rumors from the industry state that Geeta wanted a long term commitment while Harbhajan wanted to focus on his cricketing career. The couple reportedly parted ways in March 2011.

Basra was also spotted with Harbhajan in London where the England-India Test matches took place few months ago. Bhajji has been asked to rest due to a stomach muscle pull and Geeta decided to catch up with him in London.

A close friend said, "She was worried, so she decided to head to London to tend to him. Even otherwise, he was disturbed about his form in the ongoing tour. And the muscle pull only worsened the matters for him."

"Being dropped from the sole T20 match and the ODI series must have further distressed Bhajji. So while he recovers from the stress, Geeta will be around to take care of him."

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Kareena Kapoor's was statue to be unveiled on October 27

      Kareena Kapoor's wax statue at Madame Tussauds will be unveiled on October 27 in Blackpool, UK. She will also flag off a global exhibition, where the statues of Bollywood stars will be taken to six major cities around the world to be exhibited, before they are brought back to Blackpool.

Kareena's wax statue was scheduled to be unveiled in the second week of October but the date got postponed after the sad demise of beau Saif Ali Khan's father, cricketer Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi. Bebo was in no mood to attend any event after the catastrophe, she just wanted to be there for Saif and his family. She cancelled all her appointments and public appearances that were scheduled in the first week of October. She conveyed to the museum authorities that she could not take part in any form of celebration or attend any public function before Diwali. The museum authorities assured her that they were ready to wait. Everything fell in place and Kareena finalized October 27 as the date for unveiling her statue.

Kareena will be missing the Toronto premiere of her much awaited film Ra.One, as it falls on the same day. But Shah Rukh Khan has no problems with that as he feels that her presence at the Dubai and London premieres will be more than enough.

Kareena's beau Saif will be shooting for Agent Vinod in Rajasthan and sister Karisma Kapoor will be busy with the shoot ofDangerous Ishq, so they won't be present for the unveiling of the statue. Kareena's mother Babita Kapoor will accompany her for the event.

The unveiling of Bebo's statue will kick-start a Bollywood exhibition, featuring statues of Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan, Hrithik Roshan, Salman Khan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan among others, to six countries including Hong Kong and Thailand.

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Rangoli designs for Diwali

Rangoliis a Sanskrit word which means a creative expression of art through the use of color.

It is believed by many that duringDiwali, Goddess Lakshmi visits homes that are well lit, so families decorate their homes, people wear their best clothes, children are given presents and new year greetings are exchanged through visits or Diwali cards.

An important part of the celebrations is Rangoli which is created on doorsteps to welcome everybody. Rangoli exudes a pattern in color that are specific for each region.

In the art of floor painting, the central rangoli design is the symbolic one denoting the deity or the theme. Though the designs vary in different sections of India, the basic approach is common. The designs are geometric and proportioned. Also, Rangoli can be made in two ways - dry and wet.

Motifs include lotus, fish, birds etc which reflects the unity of man and beast. Most of the rangoli designs are circular exuding a sense of endlessness of time. Sun, moon and other zodiac signs are also common themes for rangoli besides Om, mangal kalash, swastika, chakra, a lighted Deepak, trident, shree, lotus etc.

The raw materials mainly used to make rangoli include edibles like rice flour, pulse and leaves. Earlier, the colors were traditionally derived from natural dyes but today, however, synthetic dyes are used in a range of bright hues. Other materials include colored sand and even flowers and petals, as in the case of Flower Rangolis.

It has been a tradition in India to draw Rangoli on the festivals and other auspicious occasions as it is considered a holy ritual.

India is famous for its rich culture and traditions. So much so that each state even has its own language, cuisine, festivals, culture and traditions! If you live in one state, you may not know about the folk art of another; they're passed on from generation to generation.

Rangoli is one such tradition. It is very popular in most of the Indian states. Rangoli has different names from state to state. In southern India, it is known as Kolam; in eastern India, it is called Alpana.

As a child, I was always drawn to this beautiful art form. I delighted in seeing women folk decorating the entrance of their homes with Rangoli designs and patterns. I have been always a lover of art, color,designs and things which are creative. Over the years, my fascination for rangoli and rangoli designs has be

come stronger and now I also make sure that Idraw rangoli when we celebrate Diwali. Even my son loves helping me out in my designs!

This lens is about Rangoli Kolam Designs and how to make free hand Rangoli or Kolam designs and patterns. It is my pleasure to share this beautiful art form from India with other parts of the world. I will be happy if my lens sparks your interest a little too!






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What is Rangoli?

What is Rangoli?

'Rangoli' is a Sanskrit word and it means a creative expression of art through the use of color. The word Rangoli is a combination of two words "rang" (color) + "aavalli" (row), which means row of colors.

Basically, Rangoli is the art of drawing images and motifs on the floor and walls of homes using different color powders.

Mostly people draw Rangoli on special occasions but Diwali is one such festival, when most of the Indian household draw a Rangoli to welcome Goddess Laxmi(Goddess of wealth)

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Tea

    Tea is the agricultural product of the leaves, leaf buds, and internodes of various cultivars and sub-

varieties of the Camellia sinensis plant, processed and cured using various methods. "Tea" also refers to the aromatic beverage prepared from the cured leaves by combination with hot or boiling water, and is the common name for the Camellia sinensis plant itself. After water, tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world. It has a cooling, slightly bitter, astringent flavour which many enjoy.

The term herbal tea usually refers to infusions of fruit or herbs containing no actual tea, such as rosehip tea or chamomile tea. Alternative terms for this are tisane or herbal infusion, both bearing an implied contrast with tea. This article is concerned exclusively with preparations and uses of the tea plant, Camellia sinensis, the Minnan word for which is the etymological origin of the English word tea.

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Coffee

     Coffee is a brewed beverage with a dark, slightly acidic flavor prepared from the roasted seeds of the coffee plant, colloquially called coffee beans. The beans are found in coffee cherries, which grow on trees cultivated in over 70 countries, primarily in equatorial Latin America, Southeast Asia, South Asia and Africa. Green (unroasted) coffee is one of the most traded agricultural commodities in the world. Coffee can have a stimulating effect on humans due to its caffeine content. It is one of the most-consumed beverages in the world.
Coffee has played a crucial role in many societies. The energizing effect of the coffee bean plant is thought to have been discovered in the northeast region of Ethiopia, and the cultivation of coffee first expanded in the Arab world. The earliest credible evidence of coffee drinking appears in the middle of the 15th century, in the Sufi shrines of Yemen in southern Arabia. From the Muslim world, coffee spread to India, Italy, then to the rest of Europe, to Indonesia, and to the Americas. In East Africa and Yemen, it was used in religious ceremonies. As a result, the Ethiopian Church banned its secular consumption, a ban in effect until the reign of Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia. It was banned in Ottoman Turkey during the 17th century for political reasons, and was associated with rebellious political activities in Europe.
Coffee berries, which contain the coffee seeds or "beans", are produced by several species of small evergreen bush of the genus Coffea. The two most commonly grown are the highly regarded Coffea arabica, and the 'robusta' form of the hardier Coffea canephora. The latter is resistant to the devastating coffee leaf rust (Hemileia vastatrix). Once ripe, coffee berries are picked, processed, and dried. The seeds are then roasted to varying degrees, depending on the desired flavor. They are then ground and brewed to create coffee. Coffee can be prepared and presented in a variety of ways.




                   An important export commodity, coffee was the top agricultural export for twelve countries in 2004, and it was the world's seventh-largest legal agricultural export by value in 2005. Some controversy is associated with coffee cultivation and its impact on the environment. Many studies have examined the relationship between coffee consumption and certain health conditions; whether the overall effects of coffee are ultimately positive or negative has been widely disputed. The method of brewing coffee has been found to be important to its health effects.




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